Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Both a joyous act of communion and a solemn farewell, “Beginning of a Memory” is a celebration of life, community and family expressed with the virtuosic wit and embracing humor that has made drummer Matt Wilson so beloved in the jazz community. Returning to the studio as …
2015 Iowa City Jazz Festival – Memorial Day Special Monday, May 30th at 6:00 AM KCCK gives you a great way to kick-start the summer and get pumped for the 2016 Iowa City Jazz Festival (July 1-3) when we bring you all of the 2015 Iowa City Jazz Festival Main Stage performances plus our exclusive, …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. An artist whose music is at once timeless and yet utterly of its time, Gregory Porter solidifies his standing as his generation’s most soulful jazz singer with “Take Me to the Alley”, the much-anticipated follow-up to his sensational 2013 Blue Note debut. As he’s done with …
For nearly 24 years our affable local curmudgeon, Mark Yother, offered us his weekday “Got A Minute” commentaries – his sometimes skewed perspective on what everybody else is up to. Occasionally serious; always more or less reality-based. Mark wrote all of his scripts for “Got A Minute” on his typewriter. He kept every single one filed …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Saxophonist, composer and author Walt Weiskopf has made in impressive mark as both a leader and sideman with over a dozen critically acclaimed discs and countless sideman credits. In 1983, he began a fourteen-year association with pianist and arranger Toshiko Akiyoshi, making seven recordings and touring …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: Vocal Short List 14 (Carol Welsman) Over the years there have been a host of great jazz performers who came over the northern border to make a splash in the United States, including pianist Oscar Peterson, …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. From his roots in music-rich Memphis through his work with legends ranging from B.B. King to Max Roach to Slide Hampton and his renowned tenure with the Miles Davis Quintet, saxophonist George Coleman established himself as one of jazz’s most soulful and expressive voices. Last year he joined …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: Vocal Short List 14 (Alexis Cole) Alexis Cole is just starting to really get noticed as a fine jazz singer, but she’s been that way for quite a time. Born in New …
